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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1h

Feeling my VO2 Max as I lay on my couch and watch the Chicago Marathon.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I mean, this was coordinated at a pretty high level. There is going to be a substantial paper trail.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1h

… There will be reams of emails where the major networks are literally talking with one another about coordinating the boycott. This didn’t happen without those.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13h

And this whole thing is in spite of me eating Pope hot sauce on my pizza tonight as a good luck charm.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13h

But that’s on me. I completely screwed the pooch there.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13h

In my defense I also texted about the Cleveland pitcher’s performance. And also I was trying to explain why I slunk away from everyone else to go watch the game.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13h

I know better, but I texted my partner that the Sox had a perfect game going.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a wonderful article, Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles by Ozkan Eren and Naci Mocan, which looks at juvenile sentencing in weeks after upsets. There is an effect. And in the direction that you’d imagine.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder if there is any causal effect between major local college sports upsets and anti-/pro-incumbent election results (depending on if the home team is upset or doing the upsetting). I’m sure some bored political scientist has looked at this.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 14h

At least they were taking mass transit, I suppose...

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not Nic’s fault that you can’t legibly change the geography of folk horror…

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 17h

Aw, man, I hope you’re back at it tomorrow.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 18h

Oh. That’s why there were so many people in cowboy boots in the neighborhood yesterday.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 18h

This is what happens when you eliminate your Women’s and Gender Studies program.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 18h

Hell, if I had $847m to donate to *a university*, I can’t even imagine how low down the list building a college football stadium would be… And I experienced live lots of minutes of football played on Ryan Field at Dyche Stadium.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 19h

Is the disagreement that other people think something *shouldn’t* happen? Or that it *can’t* happen? Because those are distinct political problems.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 19h

Like, it’s a simple frame, right? But it’s useful for understanding all sorts of exiting political landscapes. And in the post-Trump era, it’s going to be particularly important to be able to differentiate between what should happen and what can happen.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 19h

And, of course, there’s of what can/can’t happen being not at all fixed. And what amount of effort/capital is worth it in moving can’t to can…

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 19h

A big problem with this conversation is that there are things that should happen. And there are things that can happen. And the Venn diagram is absolutely not a circle. Compounding that is the problem of not really knowing with complete certainty what things can happen and what things can’t.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, just like, if this wasn’t real it would be just an incredible bit. (And I’m still not fully convinced that Trump isn’t going to happen reveal himself to be Andy Kaufman. Like that’s as coherent an explanation as any…)

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s statement that his work in Rwanda makes him more deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize than Navi Pillay is … something.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Etc etc etc It’s almost like they actually believe this stuff.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today is the twenty-third annual World Day Against the Death Penalty. I believe that the state should not have to power to kill people under its care and custody. I believe that there is no criminal act that one can commit that is degrading enough to one’s humanity such that it justifies execution.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Early days, but this feels like a game where Fulham needs to pick up three points in a pretty emphatic fashion. Emphasis on emphatic. Otherwise it feels like this will be a season lost to struggling to stay out of relegation.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My scary Halloween profile name approves of that particular choice.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

It's just been announced at NYCC so I guess I can tell you that I'm writing The Regulators for Marvel. My five issue comic series will be out in 2027. Mutants, magic and monsters woven into the very fabric of Jim Crow America.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, let’s not forget about the sanctions.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That was kind of my reaction… Um, that doesn’t seem like that much? It’s supposed to sound like a lot, but it doesn’t really?

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Technically JD Vance, for this and various other reasons, has excommunicated himself and he shouldn’t take communion until he has corrected his heart and mind and done appropriate penance.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here in a few minutes I get to go to the USPS to engage in some bureaucracy. I’ve been looking forward to this all day.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have removed the leaves from the sidewalk without the use of a two-stroke engine and which went without notice from my neighbors Forgive me blowers are noisy polluting nuisances

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This statement should have never been released in this form, and the USCCB should be ashamed of themselves.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Twice in the statement the USCCB addresses Hasan’s actions. Once saying that they can’t be condoned (misspelling his name). Then they go on to say “even of one who has done great harm”. The phrasing in both cases is poor, and invites misinterpretations. And, I would argue, also erodes dignity.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For starters. And I’m troubled by the failure to indicate that the death penalty is inadmissible—especially insofar as a public execution exacerbates concerns about human dignity. Similarly, I don’t like that the USCCB doesn’t indicate that Catholics believe the death penalty should be abolished.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of my favorite bits from my teaching notes.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I said this about another set of rescued climbers, but I'm increasingly comfortable with the idea that AI acts as an "unearned confidence enhancing machine."

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ozzie has been hard at work doing various puppy things but has now crashed and crashed hard into a morning nap.

A fluffy Cavapoo puppy sleeping half on the carpet and half on the hardwood floor. The puppy’s front paw is very close to a favorite chew.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Surely this robust system will be able to deftly handle this additional shock with minimal disruptions to supply.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I, um, have a number of problems with this statement.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve tried to convince him that he needs an everyday electric (heck, if you want a truck, how about the Ford Maverick?). No dice. I’m going to nudge him again and see if the current gas prices have weakened his resolve…

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My father who is an otherwise smart man owns this gigantic pickup truck. In his defense, he uses it for field work and towing, so when he’s doing that stuff (a couple of times a week), like, he really needs it. BUT IT’S ONLY A COUPLE OF TIMES A WEEK!!! And that monster gets like 14mpg.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holy shit. I’m so sorry that happened and I really hope that you’re okay.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But this is not something that is inevitable in the States and not something that is inevitable under the Trump Admin. We’re in a framing contest about the exercise of this kind of state power. If you are someone who holds social power then you can’t sit on the sidelines here.

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